LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on wood

Measurements:

22.01 in. (55.90 cm.) (height) by 26.34 in. (66.90 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, Howard Hodgkin: Recent Paintings, 1982, no. 9 (illustrated on the exhibition poster). Venice, British Pavilion, XLI Venice Biennale, Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings 1973-1984, 1984-1985, p. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 67). This exhibition later travelled to Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection; New Haven, The Yale Center for British Art; Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery. Pittsburg, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International, 1985-1986, (illustrated, p. 140). Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings 1975-1989, 1990. no. 10 (illustrated in colour, p. 31). This exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. Berkeley, University of California, Howard Hodgkin, 1991, no. 5. Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings 1975-1989, 1991.

Literature:

'Howard Hodgkin: New Paintings', in London Magazine, July 1983 (illustrated, p. 29). E. Sozanski, 'Magnetic works of Vibrant Color', in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 23 October 1984 (illustrated, p. 4-D). M. Stevens, 'A Palette of the Emotions' in Newsweek, 3 December 1984 (illustrated in colour, p. 82). R. Lacayo, 'Returning to the Frame Game' in TIME, 3 December 1984 (illustrated in colour, p. 72). B. Hanson, 'Hodgkins on View at Yale', in Harford Courant, 24 February 1985 (illustrated, p. 49). J. Baron, 'Hodgkin accroche la Lune' in La Croix 19 July 1990 (illustrated, unpaged). T. Hyman, 'Mapping London's Other Landscape', in Art International, Autumn 1987, p. 57. J. McEwen, 'Marriage of Material and Temperament' in The Sunday Telegraph, 16 December 1990 (illustrated). T. Lubbock, 'Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings, 1975-1989' in Alba January-February 1991 (illustrated in colour, p. 29). A. Graham-Dixon, Howard Hodgkin, London 1994, p. 189 (illustrated in colour, p. 109). M. Price (ed.), Howard Hodgkin Paintings with a catalogue raisonné. The Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London 1995, p. 176, no. 168 (illustrated in colour, p. 63; illustrated, p. 176). M. Price (ed.), Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, p. 184, no. 168 (illustrated in colour, p. 185).

Provenance:

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, New York. Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1982). Thence by descent to the present owner.